Word: silva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev, meanwhile, was striving for a peaceful solution. After sending four top-level troubleshooters to the region and issuing a public plea for restraint, the Soviet leader met secretly in the Kremlin with two well-known Armenian writers, Zori Balayan and Silva Kaputikyan. Gorbachev promised them that he would personally study the Armenian demands. As soon as that message was relayed to Yerevan, the protest leaders agreed to suspend the demonstrations for one month. In Nagorno-Karabakh, however, at least two Azerbaijani youths were killed in clashes with Armenians...
...furniture, clothing and shoes. People can once again buy and sell prawns on the open market. The arrival of a shipload of Soviet cement late last year set off a modest building boom. "There has been no change in our overall aims," asserts Trade Minister Manuel Aranda da Silva. "But you can say that Frelimo has grown up and is now more mature." That growth will be hard to sustain, though, while the government fights for survival and nearly half its people cannot get enough food...
...large commercial bank Societe Generale. The idea has started to catch on elsewhere. In Portugal, where state businesses have sucked $13 billion in operating losses and subsidies from the economy since the leftist revolution of 1974, the new Social Democratic socialist government of Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva has promised similar reforms...
...Silva and Vieira were tried separately from Raposo, Cordeiro and two other men, Jose Medeiros and Virgilio Medeiros. The Medeiroses, who are not related, were acquitted of all charges in the rape, which occurred March 6, 1983 at Big Dan's tavern...
Attorneys for Silva and Vieira will argue that court testimony given by the victim was not included in prior statements provided to the defense...